AP Poll 10/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

10/25/2004

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (50)	1,610	1
2	Oklahoma (13)	1,567	2
3	Auburn (2)	1,486	3
4	Miami	1,441	4
5	Florida State	1,266	5
6	Wisconsin	1,265	6
7	California	1,234	7
8	Texas	1,125	8
9	Utah	1,103	9
10	Georgia	1,039	10
11	Tennessee	1,006	11
12	Michigan	985	13
13	Virginia	765	14
14	Louisville	728	15
15	West Virginia	686	16
16	Texas A&M	639	17
17	Purdue	553	12
18	Boise State	552	19
19	LSU	461	18
20	Arizona State	425	21
20	Oklahoma State	425	22
22	Virginia Tech	289	23
23	Iowa	191	25
24	Minnesota	93	NR
25	Southern Miss	39	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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The Associated Press began running polls of sports writers to determine who is, by popular opinion, the best college football team in the country. The first AP Poll was run in 1934 but was not run continuously until 1936.

The AP Poll currently lists the top 25 teams in the nation. From 1936 to 1961 the poll only ranked the top 20 teams. From 1962 to 1967 it only ranked the top 10 teams. From 1968 to 1988 the AP Poll returned to ranking the top 20 teams. In 1989 they started ranking the top 25 teams.

The AP poll was used in the beginning of the BCS to calculate the team standings. Due to some controversies within the BCS, the AP Poll was pulled from these calculations which caused the BCS to create the new Harris Poll.